The company was briefly saved by the war against the Seminoles in Florida which provided the first sale of Colt's revolvers and his new revolving muskets.

In 1855 Colt unveiled new state-of-the-art armories in the Hartford and London factories stocked with the latest machine tools ( some of which were of Colt's devising ), many built by Francis A. Pratt and Amos Whitney, who would found the original Pratt & Whitney toolbuilding firm a few years later.

With the Civil War over and no new military contracts Colt's Manufacturing had to lay off over 800 employees.

Colt's stable of double-action revolvers and single-action pistols was seen as old-fashioned by a marketplace that was captivated by the new generation of " wondernines "-high-capacity, 9x19mm Parabellum caliber handguns, as typified by the Glock 17.

For the 2002-era Colt's replacement in 2012, Mitsubishi decided to resurrect the Mirage name internationally for a new sixth generation model.

Most firearms before the era of cartridges were single-shot and muzzleloading, with the exception of the cap-and-ball revolvers, such as Samuel Colt's, which appeared shortly before the cartridge era.

*. 32 S & W Long Also known as the. 32 " Colt's New Police " When chambered in Colt revolvers.

Besides being used in the war with Mexico, Colt's revolvers were employed as a sidearm by both civilians and soldiers.

Colt's revolvers were a key tool in the westward expansion.

In 1850 General Sam Houston and General Thomas Jefferson Rusk lobbied Secretary of War William Marcy and President James K. Polk to adopt Colt's revolvers for the US military.

" Lt. Bedley McDonald, who served under Walker when Walker was killed in Mexico, stated that 30 Rangers used Colt's revolvers to keep 500 Mexicans in check.

Colt's revolvers were made by machine, but he insisted on final hand finishing and polishing of his revolvers to impart a handmade feel.

On a tour of the factory, Charles Dickens was so impressed with the facilities that he recorded his favorable comments of Colt's revolvers in an 1852 edition of Household Words.

It is estimated that in its first 25 years of manufacturing, Colt's company produced over 400, 000 revolvers.

On a tour of the factory, Charles Dickens was so impressed with the facilities that he recorded his favorable comments of Colt's revolvers in an 1852 edition of Household Words.

Colt's first effort toward a metallic cartridge revolver was by conversion of existing percussion revolvers.

Another of Colt's engineers, William Mason, improved this conversion by placing the rear sight on the hammer and, along with Richards, he was granted patents in 1871 to convert percussion revolvers into rear-loading metallic-cartridge revolvers.

After the success of the Colt Single Action Army and Colt's conversion of existing percussion revolvers to Richards-Mason conversions, Mason went on to design Colt's first Double-action revolver, the Colt M1877.

By this time Colt's cheaper mass-produced revolvers had supplanted his earlier, hand made designs.

However, on December 8, 2005, a District court judge in Maine granted a summary judgment in favor of Bushmaster Firearms, dismissing all of Colt's claims except for false advertising.

Colt's center-fire 1961 rifles are all made with Sako actions, regardless of caliber.

The Colt's helmets in 1953 were white with a blue stripe.

Not to be confused with the. 32 Colt's New Police cartridge.

When tensions with Great Britain prompted Congress to appropriate funds for Colt's project toward the end of 1841, he demonstrated his underwater mines to the US government.

However, Colt's lawyers doubted that this suit would have been successful and the case was resolved with a settlement of $ 15, 000.

Barrymore's marriage to Colt was a precarious one from the start, with Barrymore filing divorce papers as early in the marriage as 1911, much to Colt's surprise, and later recanted by Barrymore as a misunderstanding by the press.

In 1855 an employee of Colt's, Rollin White, came up with the idea of having the revolver cylinder bored through to accept metallic cartridges.

Dissatisfied with Colt's production, in 1988 the U. S. military awarded the contract for future M16 production to Fabrique Nationale.

Some criticized Colt's range of handgun products in the late 1980s as out of touch with the demands of the market, and their once-vaunted reputation for quality had suffered during the UAW strike.

Zilkha replaced Stewart with Steven Sliwa and focused the remainder of Colt's handgun design efforts into " smart guns ," a concept favored politically, but that had little interest or support among handgun owners or Police Departments.

The Colt Frontier or Frontier Six-Shooter was a Colt's 1873 " Model P " type revolver, manufactured in. 44-40 Winchester caliber instead of. 45 Colt ( in which configuration it was called the Single Action Army ), so as to be cross-compatible with Winchester Model 73 ammunition.

The Colt's once again began the 1998-99 season with Bert Templeton behind the bench.

In a trade with the Toronto St. Michael's Majors the Colt's management was able to bring in one of the league's top scorers in Noah, along with Mike Jefferson, and Ryan Barnes.

He was shot four times at close range in a hand-to-hand encounter by a. 38 Colt's revolver loaded with U. S. Army regulation ammunition.

He covers the body with Colt's white Gi to show his respect and admiration after the fight.

The. 38 Colt New Police was Colt's Manufacturing Company's proprietary name for what was essentially the. 38 S & W with a flat-nosed bullet.

Colt historian William Edwards wrote that Samuel Colt had married Caroline Henshaw ( who later married his brother, John ) in Scotland in 1838 and that the son she bore later was Samuel Colt's and not his brother John's.

In 1874 he became a foreman for Singer Sewing Machine Co., then was employed by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co., later went to Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and then was Superintendent and Treasurer for the Sharps Rifle Co. on June 1, 1876 ..

He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company ( now known as Colt's Manufacturing Company ), and made the mass-production of the revolver commercially viable for the first time.

Though the U. S. was not directly involved in the Crimean War ( 1854 – 1856 ), Colt's weapons were used by both sides.

This same serial numbering convention used on the Kerr was used on the Adams Revolver ( made by the London Armoury Company, among others ), and also is seen on Samuel Colt's percussion revolvers of all models, where the serial number of each revolver ( stamped on various places on the Colt revolver ) was stamped on the cylinder following the words " COLTS PATENT No. " On the Kerr Revolvers, as with the Adams and Colts, these numbers are sequential and are serial numbers and not the patent number.

Phase I of the program started in February 1986 when development contracts were placed with six companies: AAI Corporation, Ares Incorporated, Colt's Manufacturing Company, Heckler & Koch ( H & K ), McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems ( MDHS ), and Steyr Mannlicher.